Re: Skolem's Paradox and why is math the way it is?

From: J.E. (troubled6man_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: 8 Oct 2004 12:25:26 -0700

"Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote in message news:<4150a021$4$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net>...
> In <39d6e584.0409210445.2f0d26d1@posting.google.com>, on 09/21/2004
> at 05:45 AM, troubled6man@yahoo.com (J.E.) said:
>
> >rather than adjust Einstein's equations to meet the large scale
> >observations that we make to be consistent with the matter that we DO
> >see.
>
> Physicists have been doing that for decades. They simply haven't been
> able to devise anything that works better than GR. The most promising
> work right now is in an area that you probably don't like, because it
> is absolutely ladden with unobservable phenomena.

Your comments are very vague. People are introducing unobservable
phenomena to make theories where observations are consistent with the
matter we do see? Why? What is the point? As for not doing better
than GR, I've seen claims of better results from people whose work I
don't understand. So I can't say, but I'd be interested in your
opinion if did successfully understand their models. What went wrong?

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